Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-04-16
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Prairie fires devastated $500 900 acres IN
Texas last year.
March fires cost the United States and
Canada $Io,4so,ooo
The law prohibiting gambling is to be en-
forced at Philadelphia.
A big new gas well at Fremont, Ohio has
turned out to be an oil producer. 8
A Detroit bank manager has absconded
with nearly thirty thousand dollars.
Russia and Great Britain have effected an
amicable settlement of the Afghan question:
The total redemption of trade dollars, ac-
cording to the latest returns, amounts to $3,-
S75,73s.
The Michigan Legislature has offered
bounty for the destruction of the English
sparrow.
Frank M. Langston, son of the ex.Minis-
ter to Hayti, shot and fatally wounded a col
ored man in quarrel in Pittsburg.
The Interstate Commission had ruled that
the law applies to express companies until
further consideration Of the matter can be
had.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
some very stringent measures to punish those
who intimidate laborers to prevent them from
working.
DR.. McGlynn was rather coldly received
in Cincinnati. An effort was made to pre-.
sent him to the Chamber of Commerce, but
it was unsuccessful.
Mrs. James Brown Potters' family is we'll
pleased that she has failed in her ambition
to be an acttess Her husbands S visit to Eng
land was to persuade her to give up her am
bilious desires.
Col Thomas A. Scott, having noticed the
beauty Of the depot at Munich in his last trip
abroad, has had the structure reproduced in
the new Pennsylvania Railroad building at
Harrisburg, Penn.
The immigrants who arrived in the United
Stale during the eight months ending with
February last numbered 22I,4oo, as against
I56,o47 who arrived during the corresponding
period Of the preceding year.
In Atoos county, Texas, nineteen families
numbering 100 persons, are in a condition OF
starvation occasioned by the drought. In
some cases they have been forced to eat cat
tie which have died from starvation.
The prairie fires in Kansas last Saturday
was fully two and a half miles wide. Many
farmers were left almost destitute. Thirteen
to sixteen lives were lost. The fire was in
Norton, Graham and Atchison counties.
A Vigilance Committee of Brown county;
Neb., overlook two young horse thieves near
Sargent Monday night and shot and killed
one OF them, Joseph Arnold, and captured
the other, named James Bohan. One of the
vigilantes was dangerously shot.
Joseph G Farr, Travelling Auditor of the
Long Island Railroad Company, who made
practice OF robbing station agents and then
reporting them short in their cash, caus-
ing their dismissal, has been sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary.
A visitor to the Penitentiary at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, while casually looking through the
institution week before last, discovered in one
of the prisoners brother of his who had run
away from home at the age of seven years
and was supposed by the family to have been
drowned.
Bloodhounds, for the tracking Of escaping
criminals, have arrived at Memphis. At a
trial of three of the dogs at convicts camp
at Friar's Point, Miss, a negro under ten
years sentence was released, and told that
he should have his liberty he escaped the
dogs. He was given three hours start. The
dogs ran the poor fellow down before he had
gone twenty miles.
Fifteen years ago Charles Berthlaume, Of
Terrebonne, Canada, left his young wife
and went to California to make his fortune.
At the end of year Mrs. Berthlaume heard
that her husband was dead, and when, a
year or two later, neighbor asked her hand
in marriage, she said ''Yes." The other day
Berthlaume appeared alive and well and
claimed his wife, and the village priest has
decided that she must live with him.
There recently died in Alexandra, Va.,'
an old man who had long carried on, in
small way, the jewelry business, A com
mission appointed to examine into his affairs
found in his dilapidated house where he had
lived with his aged wife an old iron safe, and
in it were $50, 900 in money and over 800
watches. The widow was entirely surprised,
and so were the neighbors, who always
thought the old couple to be very poor.